Often what I find is I run selenium tests and start doing something as they take time to run. Then the tests are not running. Firefox stopped with certificate error! You have to add the certificate again to run those tests. It happens again and again, and as you are not a machine, you get tired mentally and emotionally. This is my story with selenium tests, so far.

There are a few ways to get around this certificate error. (I can’t say it’s annoying, as it warns you against the fraudulent websites.)

T : allow errors in the validity time, for example, for expired or not yet valid certs

5. Certificate’s serial number and the issuer name as a base64 encoded string

Firefox profile

In order to edit the file, you would have to find the file first, and it was tricky to locate Firefox profile.
If you are on windows 7 or windows server 2008 like me, click on Windows Start and type %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ in the search box.
If you on a earlier version of windows, please go to a mozilla support page for the profile location.

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